placenamesStreet
An tSráid
The parish around Streete preserves evidence of rural work and institutions extending beyond the village centre.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An tSráid · Irish · main form
- Street · English · main form
Place & story
The Inny and the working landscape
Street’s historical parish lay chiefly in Westmeath’s Moygoish barony but extended into Ardagh barony in Longford. Lewis’s 1837 account describes cultivated land, with extensive bog along the Inny on its eastern side. Quarries supplied limestone, black marble and thin black flagstone. He named S. W. Blackall’s residence at Colamber and R. Sproule’s at Kindevin, placing country houses within a wider landscape of farming, stone working and wet ground. [2]
Schoolhouses used for Sunday worship
Church services reached the parish’s extremities through two schoolhouses, where worship took place on alternate Sunday evenings. Lewis also described a subscription-supported parochial school, another aided by Mr and Miss Blackall, and a third receiving National Board support. These schools taught about 180 children, with roughly 190 more attending two private schools. The account shows how classrooms could serve both education and worship in a dispersed rural parish. [2]
The crossing at Barradrum
South of Streete village, a small limestone bridge carries the road over a stream and former millrace. The heritage survey dates it to about 1805. Dressed stones form the arch, while narrow stones set upright cap the parapets. The survey suggests a possible relationship with a former sawmill nearby, preserving that link as a possibility rather than a confirmed construction history. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Street. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Street, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland 1837 · Samuel Lewis
- Barradrum bridge, registration 15400202 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.